Prof. Dr. Sonja Berensmeier
Academic Career and Research Areas
Prof. Berensmeier (*1976) conducts research in the field of new biofunctional materials and process development for the separation of biotechnologically produced low- and high-molecular biomolecules. Her main focus is on magnetic and conductive materials and process simulation. The strengths lie in the interdisciplinary interaction of material interfaces, biotechnology and process engineering. After studying biotechnology and biology at the TU Braunschweig, Prof. Berensmeier completed her doctorate at the Institute of Technical Chemistry there. From 2004 to 2009, she headed the Biofunctional Surfaces Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and was appointed to the Department of Enzyme Technology at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences in 2008. At the end of 2009, Prof. Berensmeier was appointed to the professorship for Selective Separation Technology, now Bioseparation Engineering, at TUM. She gained experience abroad at Iowa State University, MIT and ETH Zurich.
Prof. Berensmeier is a board member of DECHEMA and a member of several scientific committees. She is Director of the Munich Institute of Integrated Materials, Energy and Process Engineering (MEP) and heads the TUM WACKER Institute for Industrial Biotechnology. In 2019, she received the Supervisor Advisory Award of the Technical University of Munich for the best supervision of doctoral students and is strongly committed to the promotion of young scientists and is a member of the advisory board of the TUM:Junge Akademie.
Awards
- Supervisor Advisory Award of the Technical University of Munich (2019)
- Teaching award ‘top teaching trophy t3’, best bachelor lecture, MSE, TUM (2019)
Key Publications (all publications)
Tesanovic M, Zimmermann I, Schneider M, Berensmeier S: Modeling magnetic separation for hIgG purification: A theoretical and experimental study, Separation and Purification Technology, 369, 132791, DOI 10.1016/j.seppur.2025.132791.
AbstractKrolitzki E, Winkler W, Schwaminger SP, Berensmeier S: Bare magnetic iron oxides for binding and selective elution of lactoferrin from acid whey, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 176, 136654, 2025.
AbstractEssert GM, de Souza JP, Schwaminger SP, Bazant MZ, Berensmeier S: Understanding electrostatic interaction on strong cation-exchanger via co-ion valency effects, Sep Purif Technol, 342, 126860, 2024.
AbstractRöcker D, Dietmann K, Nägler L, Su X, Fraga-García P, Schwaminger SP, Berensmeier S: Design and characterization of an electrochemically-modulated membrane chromatography device, J Chromatogr A, 1718, 464733, 2024.
AbstractKaveh-Baghbaderani Y, Allgayer R, Schwaminger SP, Fraga-Garca P, Berensmeier S: Magnetic separation of antibodies with high binding capacity by site-directed immobilization of Protein A-domains to bare iron oxide nanoparticles, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4(5), 4956, 2021.
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